Old disco ripple projector
Added 2021-12-19 20:35:02 +0000 UTCA classic effect from the tungsten era (which wasn't very long ago).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_REsWTznI
This is pretty much what's in most of the larger ripple projectors.
Comments
Actually repaired one for a friend of mine a while ago, bulb socket had turned to charcoal! Produced some trippy patterns.
Boris von Shithousen
2021-12-20 21:53:40 +0000 UTCThe LED ones tend to go for a different approach to the lamp. LED lamps are not good at tight beams.
Big Clive
2021-12-20 01:10:12 +0000 UTCCost. They're very common motors, and it's literally cheaper to use two than try and come up with a custom gearing system.
Big Clive
2021-12-20 01:08:55 +0000 UTCI hope to, but to comply with all the IOM rules if I do it will be close to the day itself.
Big Clive
2021-12-20 01:08:05 +0000 UTCReplace the Halogen with a LED?
Tokkan FX
2021-12-19 21:56:26 +0000 UTCHope you're continuing to recover well Clive, will you make it back to the IOM for Christmas?
Dr Andy Hill
2021-12-19 21:33:09 +0000 UTCWould be very easy to add some colour to the glass as well if you wanted.
Mike Hanley
2021-12-19 20:59:38 +0000 UTCWasn't very long ago? Oh you make me feel OLLLLLLLLLLLLD! I wonder why two motors for the ripple disks instead of one and gearing?
Ymir the Frost Giant
2021-12-19 20:47:58 +0000 UTCI would have to make one of the motors rotate slightly slower than the other so it would be a long time before you see a repeating pattern. Yes, nobody is going to memorize the ripple pattern but that wouldn't matter, I would have to do it because I would know.
Mark Trombley
2021-12-19 20:46:17 +0000 UTC
